Improvement in cotton-seed planters



Cotton-Pldhter.

D R A, H N I E R & R E L S E K Patent-ed- 27 185 9 I ".PETER8. FHOTO-LITHDGRAFHEK WASHINGTON D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT; jOFFICE. 1

IM PROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED l LA NT ERSL Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26.596, datedDecember27, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES KESLER and F. REINHARD, both of Columbus, in the county of Colorado and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Cotton-Seed Planter; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip-- tion of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which I Figure 1 represents a longitpdinal vertical section of our invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of same.

, Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in arranging in a hopper a roller armed with stirring and feeding teeth, in combination with an inclined perforated partition and a distributing-roller with seed-cells, which latter are filled by the action of the toothed roller, so as to insure a correct distribution of the seed.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe it. 7

A represents the hopper of a seed-planter, arranged in the usual manner on a health provided with handles and supported by a wheel or wheels, so as to be able to draw it iron] place to place and to direct its motions. The bottom of this hopper is furnished with an aperture, a, through which the seed is discharged into a separate tube, or into a hollow tubular hoe, in the usual manner. rior of this hopper is a roller, B, furnished with stirring-teeth a and with feeding-teeth b, and driven by a pulley, c, from a corresponding pulley on the driving-axle. The stirring-teeth are simply round pins, flattened down at the points and firmly inserted into the surface of The feeding-teeth, on the other the roller. hand, form hooks whereby they are enabled to take hold of the cotton-seed, separate it, and

Arranged in the i-ntebring it to the seed-cells;1 Under this toothed roller, and attached tothe bottom and togone side of the hopper, is thejcurved partitionltJ, which is perforated with an aperture, 1d,;to j admit the seed to thedistributing-roller1D, which is situated underfthepartition C: Qiisanh 3 axle, e, and to which motion is impartedi'ro n 1 the same pulleyand bythe samepbelt that serves to' drive the toothed roller B byn eans of a pulley, e. Thesurfaceot'w the =distribut ing-roller is providedflwith a a series offseed cells, f, that are connected by a groove,g, ;and it runs close over a brush,;h, thatserves tolre+ l 1 tain the surplus seed, which may becarried oli' by one or theother ofthe seed-cellsqSpikes i, inserted into the roller between the seed-cells, serve to clean outithebrush if some NOE} the seed should get caughtbetween the br'istl e Without the groove g the seed from the hop per would be dischargedonly when oneof tl M seed-cells f comes underythe aperture (1 in the partition-U; but withthe grooveand by theaid of the spikes i the seedwcontinues to be dis-lg 1 charged as longas theroller D, isrotated. i I

By the combined action of thetoothed roller 5 B and the distributing-roller D the seed is tlischarged perfectly regu1ar,so thata field planted by the aid of our planter; grows more regular thanif any other contrivance ,fordistrib uting the seed is used. a 1

Having thus fully I dGSQIlUBd our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to securelby 1 Letters Patent. isi l f The arrangement, ina hopper, of the roller B with stirring-teeth a and feeding-teeth b, j combination with the perforated partitioni Q 1 and the distributing-roller D, substantially asi and for the purpose specified. a r t v ,GHARLESKESLEIflY FltEDkREINHABDQ y Witnesses: 1 l a y W. B. DEwEEs,. E; P. WHIT I LD, 

